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Eugenics: positive vs negative [PDF]

, 2014
The distinction between positive and negative eugenics is perhaps the best-known distinction that has been made between forms that eugenics takes. Roughly, positive eugenics refers to efforts aimed at increasing desirable traits, while negative eugenics ...
Wilson, Robert A.
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The ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and transhumanism: a personhood-based approach

Data & Policy
In this article, I will consider the moral issues that might arise from the possibility of creating more complex and sophisticated autonomous intelligent machines or simply artificial intelligence (AI) that would have the human capacity for moral ...
Amara Esther Chimakonam
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Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights by Alan Smart and Josephine Smart [PDF]

, 2018
Review of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological ...
Shaw, David
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN THE CONTEXT OF AI, GLOBALISATION AND THE IDEOLOGY OF TRANSHUMANIS [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society
Artificial intelligence, globalisation and the ideology of transhumanism are contemporary realities that propose a new conception of man, his social status, likely to affect the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in constitutions and laws.
Marius ANDREESCU, Andra PURAN
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Transhumanism: The Epitome of Doom and Gloom

Annals of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and Karachi Medical & Dental College, 2017
Ever since the idea of "Transhumanism" came into being, it has divided our society into two opposing factions i.e. the bioconservatives and transhumanists. The  transhumanist  movement  is  based  on  the idea that enhancements should be made in  humans 
Noorulain Hyder, Muhammad Liaquat Raza, Azfar Athar Ishaqui   +2 more
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Transhuman and posthuman – on relevance of "cyborgisation" on legal and ethical issues [PDF]

, 2012
I will discuss issues which can be seen as taken strictly from the science fiction literature. Nonetheless, I would like to demonstrate that those issues not so far from now will have a big influence on the ethical discourse and also the law and social ...
Michalczak, Rafał
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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSHUMANISM: EXPLORING GENDER, IDENTITY ANDHUMANITY IN THE AGE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

African And Global Issues Quarterly
This study critically examines the intersection of feminism and transhumanism, focusing on emerging biotechnological advancements in reproductive health, and their applications and implications for cisgender women in Africa. Through an African feminist
Dr. Dudziro Nhengu
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Pure science and the posthuman future [PDF]

, 2008
Since the industrial revolution, humans have tended to reduce science to the ancillary role of engine of technology. But the quest for knowledge started two and a half millennia ago with the aim of setting humans free from ignorance. The first scientists
Campa, Riccardo
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The semantics of transdisciplinary concepts of socio-natural co-evolution: a constructive utopia, social verification and evolutionary risk [PDF]

, 2015
The utopian character of modern scientific theories, with the human nature as a subject, is an inevitable consequence of the presence of an imperative component of transdisciplinary human dimensional scientific knowledge.
Kosova, Yulia, Valentin, Cheshko
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Transhumanism, Religion, and Techno-Idolatry: A Derridean Response to Tirosh-Samuelson

Religions
This paper critiques Hava Tirosh-Samuelson’s view of transhumanism as techno-idolatry by applying Derrida’s notion of the unconditional “to-come” and the generalized fetish.
Michael G. Sherbert
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